Color one

Café noir

#4B3621

Color two

Olive

#808000

Café noir (#4B3621) and Olive (#808000) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Mikhail Lebedev, and Moise Kisling and the Academic Art tradition. Painters typically deployed café noir at an average of 14% of the canvas, with olive at 8%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Smoky black (#100C08), Saffron (#F4C430), and Light French beige (#C8AD7F).

Artworks Featuring Café noir & Olive

Naked Women Playing Checkers palette card
Naked Women Playing Checkers
Felix Vallotton · 1897
A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul palette card
A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Tahitian Women Bathing palette card
Tahitian Women Bathing
Paul Gauguin · 1892
Late Afternoon in the Bluebonnets, S. W. Texas palette card
Late Afternoon in the Bluebonnets, S. W. Texas
Robert Julian Onderdonk · 1913
Farmyard at La Percaillerie (Normandy) palette card
Farmyard at La Percaillerie (Normandy)
Albert Marquet · 1901
Dancer arranging her hair palette card
Dancer arranging her hair
Edgar Degas · 1900

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Café noir & Olive

6 master palettes where Café noir and Olive appear together most prominently.

Jules Joseph Lefebvre Palette 3 - Veiled Fawn

Jules Joseph Lefebvre

14.3% Café noir · 10.4% Olive

Mikhail Lebedev Palette 4 - Penumbral Laterite

Mikhail Lebedev

14.7% Café noir · 9.2% Olive

Moise Kisling Palette 7 - Soft Fawn

Moise Kisling

14.7% Café noir · 8.0% Olive

Julius Kockert Palette 5 - Tenebrous Terracotta

Julius Kockert

23.8% Café noir · 3.2% Olive

Edmund Blair Leighton Palette 7 - Tenebrous Terracotta

Edmund Blair Leighton

8.7% Café noir · 8.4% Olive

Adalbert Schaffer Palette 1 - Veiled Caramel

Adalbert Schaffer

10.5% Café noir · 6.4% Olive

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